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Norman Bird
30 October 1920
Norman Bird played in 7 movies in the Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, War, Animation, Fantasy genres.
Norman Bird got succeed with average imdb rating 6.9.
The same of the UK's finest and most prolific character actors, credited with over two hundred television and sixty film roles which began in 1954 with Caricature Hamilton's "An Inspector Calls".Lived in Bridgnorth, Shropshire. He and his wife had moved to the space from Middlesex in 1992 to be closer to their two daughters, Lucy and Catherine, and five grandchildren.His wife, Nona Blair, was the air of Joan Burton in 104 episodes of "The Archers", the the public's longest running radio soap (29... May 1950 - present-day).Met his wife, Nona Blair, in Rep in Northampton.His have a job was described in Brian McFarlane's Encyclopedia of British Film as "a wonderful gallery of under-achievers".A role in Stay Favourable, a comedy series with Dennis Waterman, obvious his 200th TV advent (1990).Grew a moustache to modify in spite of older character parts as it became noticeable that he was not being considered for those as a leading staff.Made his London stage debut in Peter Brook's production of The Winter's Naval scuttlebutt at the Phoenix Theatre in 1951.In 1950, he joined John Gielgud's company, understudying for Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not Fitted Burning, which toured the Common States.Demobbed from the Royal Associated with Force in 1947, he appeared with hoard companies in Henley-on-Thames, Dundee and Northampton.Bryan Forbes directed him in Whistle Down The Wind (1961), The Ill-considered Confine (1966) and The Raging Moon (1970). In the model he played the of Nanette Newman (Forbes' wife) in defiance of the low-down that there was only a fourteen-year age aperture between them.Left fashion at 16 and spent six months working in an office first studying at RADA (Baron Academy of Dramatic Skilfulness). Whilst at RADA he began lifelong friendships with Richard Attenborough and Bryan Forbes.A eremitical man postponed the screen he enjoyed gardening, walking and the countryside.Bridgnorth, his home from 1992, was well known to him from his wartime days at Stanmore Outrageous, an RAF training the established order.Read more Less
